(DETROIT FREE PRESS) - Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert took to Twitter on Sunday night to express disappointment with a CBS "60 Minutes" segment on Detroit that included an interview with him and highlighted his downtown real estate investments.

"Expected more of @60minutes." Gilbert wrote in the tweet, dashed off at 9:31 p.m. "Is a 'me too' story of mostly 'ruin porn' news? A city's soul that will not die was the story & they missed it."

The Forbes-list billionaire was among a half-dozen residents and civic leaders interviewed during the program's 13-minute overview of Detroit. The segment focused on Detroit's bankruptcy filing and the diminished quality of city services that residents endure, including hours-long waits for police service.

CBS correspondent Bob Simon seemed particularly struck by the contrast between Detroit's downtown area and the surrounding neighborhoods. The segment opened with scenes of the Packard Plant, unlit streets and burnt-out houses.

"It looks like it has lost a war," Simon said. "It could be Dresden after the Allied bombing."

Gilbert was introduced as the second-largest private landowner in the city and interviewed about his many downtown real estate purchases and investments made at the bottom of the market.

"Some think of him as doing for Detroit what Carnegie did for Pittsburgh, what Rockefeller did for New York," Simon said.

Asked whether he was doing what's good for Detroit or what's good for himself, Gilbert replied, "In our case, I think it's doing well by doing good."

Gilbert, also the owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, is know for making blunt remarks on Twitter and elsewhere. In May, he blasted home-building company PulteGroup for deciding to move its headquarters from Bloomfield Hills to Atlanta, denouncing its "punk CEO" and "invertebrate board."

He generated national headlines in 2010 by posting a sharply worded letter to Cavs fans on the team's website after LeBron James announced his departure to the Miami Heat.

In the "60 Minutes" segment, John George, founder of Motor City Blight Busters, takes Simon on a tour of blighted properties in the city's Brightmoor neighborhood.

At one point, Simon tells George the street looks as bad as any he has seen in the U.S. George replies that "if all of this would have happened overnight, you'd see FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) here, the president, helicopters flying all over. But because it took 50 years, there's no urgency."

George said Sunday night that he felt the show's depiction of Detroit was fairly balanced, although much of it was "old news."

A spokesman for Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who was also interviewed on camera, said Orr had no comment.

A CBS representative could not be reached for comment Sunday night.

Others interviewed included an urban farmer, a mother bringing up children in a rough neighborhood, the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and two Detroit firefighters.

The firefighters described their unsuccessful attempt to extinguish a car fire with a garden hose. The fire spread to a house, which burned down.